A United Nation

May 30, 1985

ANYTHING brought to an extreme such as letter writer John Tilton's irrelevant suggestions about English as an official language can make any cause look bad.

Being a naturalized citizen I can relate to the subject perhaps more than most. I am firmly convinced that the major reason the United States remains a large, united nation is the commonality of language, written and spoken, from one coast to the other. This commonality is our biggest asset as one nation. Europe, much smaller than the United States, has more languages than one can count.

We should preserve such a unifying influence. To do so will not be a major hurdle for anybody, certainly not compared with the language struggles we put up with in the ''home country,'' or the struggles of becoming accepted as U.S. immigrants in the first place. The preservation will help secure our unity in the future and save federal, state and local governments an enormous amount of money.

I keep my mother's tongue alive by associating with others who speak it, and have no intentions of forcing it onto others. They will be grateful I am sure.